/T IS perhaps difficult to see, when looking 

 at the June picture of this bit of border, 

 Plate No. 11 {June 20th), where all the plants 

 shown in the opposite picture could have been 

 hiding during the all-covering exuberance of that 

 flowery month. There they were, however, await- 

 ing their chance, and here they are making us 

 forget in the richness of their display the more 

 frivolous loveliness of young summer. 



Of course the white Goat's Rue is a "hand-me- 

 down" from the earlier season and is good for a 

 full fortnight yet. The Delphiniums and An- 

 chusas of the earlier picture were interplanted 

 with Aconites (Aconitum Napellus and its va- 

 riety bicolor) whose sprays of blue and white 

 flowers are conspicuous in the picture. The 

 tall white-flowered plant is the Culverwort (Ve- 

 ronica virginxa), and the scarlet Phlox is Coque- 

 licot. 



As autumn claims the garden for her own long 

 branches of a hardy Aster, hitherto unnoticed, 

 suddenly burst into a heathlike flowering. The 

 name of the Aster is Novelty. Its colour is a 

 curious soft pink which is in nice accord with the 

 cold blue Aconites (Aconitum autumnale) that 

 are arranged to companion it. 



